Guitarist Paul Maclay is a local of the Yass Valley Shire and was born into a musical family of Scottish decent. He is a trained horticulturalist, works as an audio visual producer at the Australian National University and works on and off as a session musician . As a guitarist, Paul didn’t grow up with the usual rock guitar heroes that your normal adolescent might follow. From a very early age he was drawn to acoustic guitar virtuosos such John Fahey and Leo Kottke and his love is still for open tuning and slide guitar. Oh! . . . and he’s quite a dab hand at pruning roses!